Example sentences of "[art] fact it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movie is simply enormous fun , and despite the fact it 's treading down a well-worn Yuletide path with no major surprises it manages to invest an old tale with great oomph , humour and enough of a jaundiced eye to avoid the sucrose trap . |
| 2 | ‘ True as the fact it 's your round , gel . ’ |
| 3 | Erm the fact it 's now burning Australian coal does tend to undermine the arguments er but nevertheless it does have a good rail connection down to the coast , the p ports on the south coast where it can , can er take the stuff in from the er from the ports . |
| 4 | I can see a way out and I 'm taking it , and the fact it 's a kind of betrayal does n't really matter . |
| 5 | But I mean , going back to the fact it 's my one and only watch , I should think Susannah has had eight or ten watches . |
| 6 | I mean the fact it 's going up on |
| 7 | The satirical phrase used to embarrass the ‘ Action Men ’ is that they have the ‘ John Wayne syndrome ’ ; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not afraid of calling myself a trader despite the fact it is now rather fashionable to describe the field you work in as a profession , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 10 | THE shadowy men of the SAS made no secret of the fact it was Christmas party time — neighbours could hear the noise a mile away . |
| 11 | However , Graham was right in saying the scoreline hid the fact it was a comprehensive defeat . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe James was making allowance for the fact it was a private sale . |
| 13 | Somewhere in her mind she registered the fact it was still pumping . |
| 14 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 15 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 16 | Why do you think it did n't fail er early on as a strike , er a as the fact it was only predicted it would last two or three weeks but it was obvious at the time it was gon na go on . |
| 17 | Er but but simply the fact it was passing through this area of land that was regarded by locals as being sacred and separating the two communities . |
| 18 | The fact it was an out-of-character performance for this season cut no ice . |
| 19 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 20 | cos , cos you know for a fact it 's not |